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   intolerable

   /ɪnˈtɒl(ə)rəb(ə)l/

   adjective

   • 1. unable to be endured: "the intolerable pressures of his work"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin intolerabilis, from in- ‘not’ + tolerabilis (see tolerable).

   Derivatives

   • 1. intolerably adverb
   • 2. intolerability noun
   • 3. intolerableness noun

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   • Make their lives intolerable. If you describe something as intolerable, you mean that it is so bad or extreme that no one can bear it. They felt this would put intolerable pressure on them. 2 meanings: 1. more than can be tolerated or endured; insufferable 2. informal extremely irritating or annoying.... Click for more definitions.

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   What is the root word of intolerable?

   • Intolerable, tolerable, tolerate, tolerant, and even extol all share the same Latin root word tolerare, which means to bear. Intolerable couples that with the prefix in-, which means not, giving the word its unbearable meaning. The Intolerable Acts, for example, were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774.

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   • If a situation is intolerable, you need to leave it. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable. The servant who had first entered had thrown up the window, or it would have been even more intolerable.

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    intolerable: 1 adj incapable of being put up with “an intolerable degree of sentimentality” Synonyms: unbearable , unendurable impermissible not permitted bitter very difficult to accept or bear impossible , insufferable , unacceptable , unsufferable used of persons or their behavior unsupportable not able to be supported or defended Antonyms: ...